Adam (Howard Keel) counsels his brothers with an improbable historical reference via Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer's "Sobbin' Women," which in turn was based on the satirical Stephen Vincent Benèt story from which the musical was written, in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954.>

Jane Powells first solo song, as Millie, newly and spontaneously married to Oregon backwoodsman Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel), at this point having no idea he has brothers, composed by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, in MGMs Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.
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